Literary Visualization: Towards a Visual Annotation of Dante’s “Comedy”

Literary Visualization is a digital humanities project that develops a web-based visual annotation of Dante’s Comedy by linking the poem’s text to medieval iconographic traditions. A collaboration between the Princeton Dante Project and the Index of Medieval Art, the platform connects textual “tokens” (figures, places, objects) to corresponding subject types and artworks, enabling line-by-line access to relevant visual materials. By reconstructing the shared visual culture of Dante and his early readers—rather than later illustrative traditions—the project offers a philologically grounded tool for research, teaching, and the study of the poem’s visual imagination. (b.d.)